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Associate law professor Richard Calland used his latest column to write about Right2Know and the changing tides in South Africa’s democracy: “Something is going on. Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening to civil society in South Africa. Not only are new organisations emerging, and the sector re-calibrating itself after the docility and […]

Journalist Issa Sikiti da Silva attended our Gauteng launch: “The launch, well-attended by the members of the public from all walks of life, looks at strengthening civil society in its battle against the government, whose actions have been interpreted as attempting to suppress freedom of expression and compromise the flow of information by enacting the […]

The Mail & Guardian Online reported back on our Cape Town launch: “Civil society organisations are willing to take the fight over the proposed Protection of Information Bill, currently before Parliament, all the way to the Constitutional Court should the Bill be passed in its current form. Speaking at the launch of the Right2Know campaign […]

Check out the Business Day report on the launch of our campaign: “More than 180 civil organisations and individuals will today announce a major campaign and a week of protest against the Protection of Information Bill. … The groundswell against what is seen by many as the government’s efforts to curtail media freedom, has sparked […]